Bingxuan "The Book of Time (Group Poem)

Writing a letter

The midday sun hides in the clouds

I try to pick up a pen and write you a letter

A deserted morning on freshly flattened white paper

Sleep is replaced by a burst of birdsong

Apricot blossoms flustered enough to fill the baskets

There is still a need to tend to the small yard of crops

Sometimes I am tired and stop to look around

Or look at the book that is as diffuse as the clouds.

The vegetable beds are neat and tidy

Sometimes when I'm tired, I stop and look around

Or look at the books that are scattered like clouds

That's how I suddenly remembered to write you a letter

And I wanted to put it all in an envelope

Discreetly and carefully

There's no wind at midday

The wind flutters its wings and flies through a bamboo grove

The sun is unusually bright at noon, and the sun is unusually bright.

The noonday sun is unusually quiet

The excess moisture evaporates in an instant

Seven of the most spontaneous men step out of the cracks of time

The wind doesn't say a word

Keeping the most ordinary work to themselves

Study the ink, lay out the paper, and collect your thoughts

Wait for a cup of tea

And then Drop an idle stamp

The wind shakes its wings and flies through a bamboo forest

As if it had never been here before

Clover fields

In June, I pore over the center of the universe

Green blood gushes

As if a flag tore through the wind's whispers

Beneath my scythe, the great sun cries out

A year is at least one of the most common work left to me. p>

Mowed at least so three or four times a year

Clover grows over and over again, practicing its upward climb

An unseen power wells up from the ground

Deeper than the sea

We'll figure out our own likeness from the clouds

Our mules, horses, chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep will be fed over and over again

They are destined to flow in their fresh blood

Freedom that can't ***

After October, the energy in their bodies is released

The alfalfa field is silent as a mirror

Shining out the joys and sorrows of past lives

The sky is high and the clouds are pale, it's waiting for a heavy snowfall

The Wenchang Pavilion

Once again dusk has arrived

A group of sparrows have already flown back to feed

The night washes over the green bricks and tiles again and again

A few pairs of middle-aged people have started to dance

The older ones have started to play tai chi

The older ones are being pushed by their sons and daughters in their wheelchairs

Look at the surrounding area

Wenquxing is sitting in the pavilion by himself

He has a lot to say about his knowledge of the world and the world's history.

Some people are full of knowledge but don't say a word

Some people get high school and some people fail

Some people become famous overnight

Some people spend their whole lives trying to figure out a single word

Like those joss sticks that have been turned into ashes

The words of the gods have been repeated by mortals

Reduced to a pile of snow-white bones

As long as the joss sticks don't go out

I don't want to see them go out. As long as the incense is not extinguished

Thoughts, souls will not disappear

By the Mubi River

That winter, it didn't snow very much in eastern Xinjiang

Three poor, down-on-their-luck scholars

Touched the words "Mubi River" on a stone tablet and took a picture of the river. The moment the photographer pressed the shutter

they could hear the sound of the river thawing

South Gate Square

the speakers raised the decibel level

and the excess heat was collected

a beast in a cage

not much different from a sparrow

and the familiar things looked like they were all in the same place. Those familiar things look different from each other

One person approaches and walks away

Their shadow is stepped on by someone else

Darkness comes and you and I need more food

Warms the heart and lungs

Wheat shouts out golden yells back home

Some wage earners sing the familiar "Wanderlust Song"

and Big Mothers' Square Dance mixed together

And finally release, release

As if it's going to be a stunning explosion

Wheat

Wheat is basking in the sun

Laying on a warm bed like poetry

A few extra clouds are its quilt

They put on a languid look

Wheat mangoes Though plucked

The hostility in its body continues unabated

What is important is the need for a ray of moonlight

Bathing, dressing, burning incense

Wheat should become a grain of wheat in appearance

More in tune with the tastes of all living beings

Bingxuan, whose real name is Chen Bin, was born in Zhuanglang in Gansu Province in 1990, and is now teaching at the First Middle School of Shizuishan City in Ningxia, is one of the most important teachers in the world. His writings have appeared in Star, Prose Poetry, Prose Poetry World, Jiannan Literature, and other newspapers and magazines.